Posts tagged: Washington Post

Congress’ approval ratings have been in the toilet for a while now, yet for the first time ever your own representative is underwater. This is a big problem (for them). Some 51 percent of Americans disapprove of their own representative,...

It’s not only the support that President Barack Obama is losing that should concern his party heading into the midterm congressional elections. It’s whose support he’s losing. Below the surface of the latest measure of the president’s job approval today,...

So much for the billionaires no one has ever heard of. Geoff Garin, the Democratic pollster, had this to say in a revealing Politico piece about the method to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s madness about Charles and David Koch...

Red states, blue states, ha. We’re looking at the Energy Election here. We’re so accustomed to viewing the presidential election through the lens of the Electoral College map that the Broadview Networks vision of the political landscape offers some new...

Doctor Zhivago is regarded as one of the world’s great works of literature (it also made a fantastic film). But its author, Borris Pasternak, never thought his epic novel would be published in his home country because it would be...

Updated 6/23 at 8:50 am EDT ”Through dint of hard work,” Hillary Clinton says, she and husband Bill Clinton have made a lot of money — yet pay taxes the way ordinary Americans do: On their actual earnings. The ability...

Residents photograph the burning ruins of their home that was destroyed in the Poinsettia fire, one of nine wildfires fueled by wind and record temperatures that erupted in San Diego County throughout the day, on May 14, 2014 in Carlsbad, California.

The White House probably can count on some public support for the regulations on power plant emissions it rolled out today — even if it costs consumers something in the process. That’s the word from an ABC News/Washington poll released...

President Barack Obama has taken some heat lately for talking about hitting “singles” and “doubles” in the game of foreign policy. In addressing the array of challenges the U.S. faces on foreign fronts, Obama has spoken of the incremental...

Much is made of the fight for the soul of the Republican Party, often portrayed as a civil war pitting the party’s establishment against an insurgent Tea Party. Much money is being made in the process. So says Haley Barbour,...

Sometimes stories simply clash. The collision of these two reverberates: – Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader from Nevada, says of the campaign contributions of the billionaire casino magnate and Republican mega-donor in Las Vegas in an interview with...